King Minos sacrifices the 'required' virgins to the Minotaur. As his wife lies dying, she confesses that her daughter has a twin she has secreted to avoid giving one of the girls to the Minotaur. The ...
The hero Theseus with the help of his beloved, slays the Minotaur, a half-man, half-bull monster that demands a sacrifice of seven youths and seven maidens from Athens and Crete.
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One archaeologist's hunt for ancient Crete's legendary minotaur

Delve into ancient Crete and the Minoan civilization as archaeologists attempt to find the legendary labyrinth of the ...
The Minoans, at least the people that we know as Minoans, lived on the island of Crete during the Bronze Age and may very well have been Europe’s first advanced civilization. The Palace of Knossos, ...